One of the first places we visited in Switzerland was Zurich. Although Zurich has a lot of attractions for the average visitor; we were interested in the religious history of the place. The Anabaptist heritage to some degree is rooted here in Zurich and especially in the Grossmünster. Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was a leader of …
As you drive up the long driveway in the Jura Mountains in southern France up to the Graber Ancestral home at Mont-Prevoir; this is your first view. It is also the view that my uncle Ora Graber had put in his book, The Graber Immigrants 1650-1984. The place is currently a working dairy farm. The …
Our first day here we drove from the airport in Milan Italy to our first night stay at Hombrechtikon. Above is a photo of the remains of a castle in the Swiss Alps that we drove by today. We did stop near Maienfeld and visited Heidiland. We will have more coming on another post of …
In the seventies and eighties my dad, Lester F. Graber, helped my late Great-uncle Ora A. Graber compile a history of the Graber Immigrants from 1650 to 1984. I don’t know how he got hold of them, but my Great-uncle Ora obtained some photos of the Graber Family home in Montbeliard, France. “The Grabers settled …